immigration policy impacts foreign students. michael finn discussed some ideas related to how the u.s. should change fees a policy to retain the best and brightest. they ended with a provocative proposal that we should auction off visas to employers so they can hire the workers they need. the panels and discussions were invigorating, to say the least. the audience was a cross-section of the most influential immigration policy groups in the country. the immigration policy institute, brookings, the center for immigration studies, as well as representatives from other idea factories -- the council on foreign relations, yale university, university of pennsylvania, and of course the university of virginia. tonight roundtable continues this discussion. before i introduced jerry, let me make two more remarks. first, it is not lost on any of us, especially those of us who were there this morning and work on emigration, the was a deafening silence on this issue during the presidential election. only afterward did policy-makers decide tha